(let’s face, it’s just me typing this. I don’t know whether to refer to myself in the third person, or with the royal ‘we’, or what. Also, I’m sorry there are still no pictures on this blog).
Anyway, Spread the Word are the writer development agency for London – which is a massive responsibility I should think. Happily they’re living up to it by publishing this very important report: Writing The Future: Black and Asian Writers and Publishers in the UK market-place. It provided welcome context for Megaphone, and I believe everyone should read it.
They’ve also just published an interview in which I mostly describe a Bookshop Utopia:
http://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/resources/view/interview-with-leila-rasheed